Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers (1899)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, ed. and tr · New York : Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 301
without some guidancethe student will scarcely venture into that dark and doubt-ful rookery of tortuous streets and unnumbered houses —the London of the Eighteenth Century. Were it not beyond the reasonable compass of a methodi-cal memoir, it would be a pleasant task to loiter for a whilein that… … MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE 2IO, Mary bone and Cbelsey; when duels were fought in the fields behind the British Museum, and there was awindmill at the bottom of Rathbone Place. We shouldfind the Thames swarming with noisy watermen, and thestreets with thick-calved Irish chairmen; we should seethe old dusky…
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